Admin menu sections
All admin menus
Configuration
NOTE: You can now see all the configuration values on one page.
- My Store — General information about your site.
- Minimum Values — Defines minimum values for various options in validation of user input.
- Maximum Values — Defines maximum values for various items that will appear on each page/in each block.
- Images — Controls size of images on each page/each type of content.
- Customer Details — Controls options to include in User Login/Registration and My Account pages.
- Shipping/Packaging — General shipping information including locations, weight and size limits, etc.
- Product Listing — Controls appearance of main Product Listing pages.
- Stock — Control various options regarding stock control.
- Logging — Controls how events are logged.
- E-Mail — Various email configuration options.
- Attribute Settings — Controls how product attributes are handled.
- GZip Compression — Controls compression settings if the information is transmitted to the user’s web browser in compressed format.
- Sessions - Controls PHP Sessions settings.
- Regulations — Provision of terms and conditions for customers.
- GV Coupons — Various configuration options for the Gift Voucher module.
- Credit Cards — Determine which credit cards to accept.
- Product Info — Basic options controlling elements to include on Product Info page.
- Layout Settings — Controls certain layout options.
- Website Maintenance — Controls how your store appears to customers when it is down for maintenance.
- New Listing — How the New Products listing page should be laid out.
- Featured Listing — How the Featured Products listing page should be laid out.
- All Listing — How the All Products listing page should be laid out.
- Index Listing — Whether certain items show on main page and other category and product listing pages.
- Define Page Status — Controls whether define pages editor text is used and whether a link to a certain page is displayed.
- EZ-Pages Settings — Various options to configure the EZ-Pages; an easy way to add new pages of content.
Catalog
- Categories/Products — Create and edit products and categories.
- Product Types — View and edit product types.
- Products Price Manager — Edit product pricing by category.
- Option Name Manager — View, edit, add and delete option names.
- Option Value Manager — View, edit, add and delete option values.
- Attributes Controller — View and edit product attributes.
- Downloads Manager — View and edit certain information about downloadable items.
- Option Name Sorter — View and edit sort order for option names.
- Option Value Sorter — Change sort order for option values.
- Manufacturers — View, add, edit or delete manufacturer information.
- Reviews — Edit or delete customer supplied reviews
- Specials — View, edit or delete special pricing.
- Featured Products — View, add, edit or delete featured products.
- SaleMaker — View, add, edit or delete sales.
- Upcoming Products — View or edit upcoming products.
- Products to Categories — Manage product-category mappings.
Modules
- Payment — Install, edit or disable payment processing systems.
- Shipping — Install, edit or disable shipping methods.
- Order Total — Install, edit or disable checkout surcharges or discounts.
- Plugin Manager - Install, activate and deactivate plugins.
Customers
- Customers - View all customers.
- Orders - View all orders.
- Group Pricing - Provide discounts to specific groups of customers.
Locations/Taxes
- Countries — Defines every country and ISO-3166 2-letter and 3-letter country code. Also defines the address format for letters sent by postal mail.
- Zones — Defines subdivisions of countries such as states/provinces or counties. This organization may be used to apply taxes to specific areas, or limit a shipping, payment or order total module to a specific region.
- Zones Definitions — Create a zone of your own to apply taxes or limit a module’s availability.
- Tax Classes — Used to differentiate between the type of tax calculations that apply to a given product.
- Tax Rates — Create a specific tax rate for a zone.
Localization
- Currencies — Add new currencies or edit existing ones.
- Languages in order to internationalize the output generated by Zen Cart.
- Orders Status — Add names of new order status entries, edit existing order status name entries, or delete an order status name entry.
Reports
- Customer Orders-Total — List of customers sorted by total order volume.
- Customers Referral — List of orders having a referral or coupon code.
- Products Low Stock — List of items sorted by number available in stock, low to high.
- Products Purchased — List of products ranked by sales order.
- Products Viewed — List of the number of views of all products.
- Sales Report with Graphs — Shows sales in a graphical format.
Tools
- Template Selection — Sets the template to be used in your storefront.
- Layout Boxes Controller — Shows how and where certain side boxes are to be displayed.
- Banner Manager — Manage banners.
- Send Email - Allows you to send an email message to a customer or a group of customers.
- Newsletter Manager - Allows you to create and send newsletters.
- Server/Version Info — Information about the web server running Zen Cart.
- Who’s Online — View certain information about the users who are currently connected to Zen Cart.
- Store Manager - reset various counts and settings.
- Developers Tool Kit - search for strings in your files.
- EZ-Pages — Add and remove special EZ-Pages pages which are easier to create or edit than standard PHP or HTML.
- Define Pages Editor — Edit certain definition pages.
- Install SQL Patches — Run SQL commands directly.
Discounts
- Coupon Admin — Manage discount coupons.
- Gift Certificates Queue — View and release gift certificates which have been issued.
- Send a Gift Certificate — Generate gift certificates and issue them by e-mail.
- Gift Certificates sent — View gift vouchers which have been sent.
Admins
- Admin Profiles — Profiles allow you to create restricted admin accounts.
- Admin Users — Shows all admin users.
- Admin Page Registration — Allows developers to create new pages.
- Admin Activity Logs — Access logging data created by admin activity.
Extras
- Record Artists — View, add, edit and delete recording artists.
- Record Companies — View, add, edit and delete record companies.
- Music Genre — View, add, edit and delete music genres.
- Media Manager — View, add, edit and delete collection names, which may be assigned to products.
- Media Types - View, add, edit and delete media types.
Other Admin Elements
- Admin Dashboard
- Admin > Version link
- Admin > Account link
- Admin View Activity Log button
- Admin > New Version Available message
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Last modified July 30, 2023 by Scott C Wilson (acd8333a).